This league needs to invest in officiating training.
It should be the top priority.
The Flames have been both beneficiaries and victims of the officiating as have every other team in the league.
I don't recall a season where it has been this ridiculous.
systemic problem that goes to minor leagues of players disrespecting officials.
harder and harder to find qualified refs at all leagues of hockey because most of them leave due to the abuse.
The sport fosters this notion by letting it happen, even though they have designated a solution in the form of jersey letters.
It makes the NHL a marginal sports league. If NBA refs weren't literally gambling on the outcome of games, I'd say the NHL is clearly the worst officiated sport in the world outside of sideshows like figure skating and the like.
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I'm flabbergasted by that call. He didn't leave his feet. it is absurd for him to be called for embelishment. I'm not one to blame the refs but that's an example of someone making themselves the focus of the game. Unacceptable incompetence. And one where frankly the Gm or Burke needs to come out and take a fine to show that they've got their players' backs.
Especially when the stick got him where the skate already did.
If you have GCL or CI and you watch other games you will find out the officiating is like that nightly in all games. It is just so ridiculously bad that the game isn't really decided by team talent anymore, the officials dictate the games.
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We have the worst / no system for when a team is sitting back. Our comebacks have always been pre other team sitting back but once they do, we play like we have the lead or are down by 1
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